Monday, May 31, 2010

Kyle Van De Giesen — the quarterback who led North Attleborough to a state Super Bowl Championship in 1997, a St. Anselm College graduate who fulfilled his dream of becoming a Marine pilot — was about to leave Afghanistan after his third deployment, returning home for the birth of his second child.

He was on his final mission last fall when his AH-1 Cobra collided with another Marine helicopter over Helmand Province just before sunrise Oct. 26. His son, Colin, was born four days after he was buried.

Saturday, May 29, 2010

I'm not sure why Ten Tables felt the need to add the name "TT Bar" to thier sign and awning. Lots of restaurants have bars inside but don't give the bar it's own name and identity.

TT Bar? I just adds clutter to the sign.

Down the street Costello's tried the same thing in reverse, trying to add a restaurant name to the bar. In the end, they went back to the establishment name Costello's on the outside signage.

Ten Tables and TT Bar should just go back to Ten Tables.
The place isn't even big enough for two names.

One more thing:
See how the Ten Tables sign is over the right hand side door? Makes you think there's both a bar and restaurant enterance, but you can only enter on the left hand side which is a combined enterance for both the bar and restaurant.

Dan Kennedy talks about how I start all my videos with "This is Steve Garfield from SteveGarfield.com, so no matter where my video goes, there's a way back to my site. He says I make it difficult for people to plagiarise my video by doing that.

When deciding what type of landing page to set up; for my book, I asked my twitter followers what they liked better, A splash page with a big photo marketing blurbs, or a community page where people could see that I would interact.

TWITTER and FACEBOOK
I set up special twitter and facebook sites for the book. That's where I post more promotional book news so I don't clutter up my regular twitter and facebook accounts with all book news all the time. I'm not sure if I'd do that again and might just concentrate on my regular twitter and facebook accounts. That's still an open question.

Friday, May 28, 2010

Combine the convenience of shopping online with the familiartiy of a print layout. Sprinkle in a dash of novelty in the form of “living portraits” and wrap the whole thing up in a sleek, hand held device. I think this could be an interesting way to shop.

4food is a socially networked quick service restaurant company. Our mission is to bring fast food that's fresh, delicious, and nutritious to all ages, lifestyles, incomes, and ethnicities. No fads, fillers, or anything artificial. We're revolutionizing counter culture, in real-time.

Location #1 opens on Tuesday, July 6th, 2010 at 40th Street and Madison Avenue, between Bryant Park and Grand Central Station - the heart of the highest density workday population in the US.

Our signature product is the W(hole)burger™a donut shaped, beef, lamb, pork, turkey, veggie, salmon or egg patty-balanced (made whole) by one of 25 ethnically diverse Veggiescoop centers, each with unique nutritional attributes. We make Skewers with the holes we punch out of the patties, which when accompanied by Veggiescoop sides, become the perfect bunless, low-carb, sharing food.

Partners in 4food include the founders Adam Kidron and Michael Shuman; Bill Niman the founder of Niman Ranch, the largest purveyor of natural meats in the US with revenues of over $100 million; Dr. Woodson Merrill, founder of the Beth Israel Center for Integrated Medicine and a leading authority on wellness and nutrition; and Ed Winter, Chairman of Omnicom's "Brand Activation" Agency, Tracy Locke, and one of the foremost experts on marketing to young people in the US.

"We're always trying to stay ahead of the curve in how we interact with our audience. I'm thinking of this as a real-time interactive DVD commentary -- and it's going to be a ton of fun. I'm just hoping I can stay awake all week long," Fallon said in a statement Thursday.

What I liked about Watch Jimmy with Jimmy:

1. It worked. Ustream was solid and both the audio and video was clear. That's a success. At one point there were over 7,000 people watching.

2. You could hear what Jimmy was saying and also get a behind the scenes look at his interaction with the writers. That was interesting. We heard them chat about what skits they were working on for the future. I like that kind of thing.

The broadcast stream made me want to be in the room with them.

3. They had the comment stream up on a big screen for everyone to read and comment on.

1. In Boston, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno went long, so nothing was synced up.

2. Although advertised as Watch Jimmy With Jimmy, and delivering on that promise, I wanted more interaction. Watching someone watch TV isn't the greatest interactive experience. I hope based on this feedback they can try some ideas to interact with the viewers more.

3. The Ustream chat box was small and would be better if it was larger or enabled as a pop up.

What I'd like to see next:

1. Like I said above, try some different ideas during the week to keep it interesting. You might think of 'Watch Jimmy With Jimmy' as a show of it's own and rely less on what's being broadcast. Maybe have some planned segments during the commercial break. Web extras.

2. Beyond this format, I'd like to see more of the original videoblogging style behind the scenes.

3. Experiment with bringing in live streaming video from viewers. That's something that I've been exploring.

4. Do an earlier live streaming show, like at 7:00 PM, prior to the live broadcast. Give us a peek at what's coming up and interact directly with viewers. That would be funa nd I would have to stay up so late.

Sunday, May 23, 2010

If you missed the final episode of Grey's Anatomy, you can watch it here via Hulu.

Would be nice if I could push this to my TV.

I know I can hook up my MacBook Pro to my TV with a DVI to HDMI Cable, and some external speakers, but that requires unmounting my drives, unplugging all my cables and carrying it downstairs. Not a big deal, but I'm spoiled by pushing Amazon movies to the TiVo.

NBC's online video site, Hulu, has launched a desktop app that allows Mac users to watch Hulu content without using a web browser, and with full Apple Remote support.

I might just watch this re-run of Grey's on my TV.

Update:
Ended up watching the final episode on my MacBook Pro, with it sitting on the footrest. The HD TV was off. Couldn't get the DVI to HDMI connection to work, and it's worked before, and I know what I'm doing. I gave up.

This is incredible you guys. Every night next week, while LNwJF is playing on your TV, Jimmy will also be watching along in his office - streaming live! We are partnering with Ustream.tv to bring you a totally interactive fun party time. You'll be able to chat with Jimmy while he comments on the show as it airs. He'll be joined by Late Night staffers and special guests! The stream will be live from 12:30 AM EST until 1:35 AM EST Monday, May 24th through Friday, May 28th, right here on our site and will be repeated for additional time zones. Did you ever think you'd get a chance to watch the show with Jimmy? HOORAY FOR TECHNOLOGY!

Friday, May 21, 2010

Here I am with Brightcove's Gary Lombardo, showing off all the technology we used for the 'How To Be a Video Blogging Powerhouse' webinar. I've got a Kodak PlaySport Pocket HD Videocamera on an X-Shot extender, and Gary is showing off his iPhone and iPad. At the front of the frame is a Creative Webcam, nad on the right is a LitePanel MicroPro LED light.

Here's a reverse angle with Gary and you can see the mic. It's an Audio Technica AT 2020 USB mic. It did a great job capture both of us speaking.

Here's what the webinar looked like online. Brighcove used the Knowledgevision Platform to inegrate the live stream, powerpoint slides and twitter stream.

You've invested in a professional resume and cover letter, now what? You are connected, using Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, but should you be doing more in your career to show case your talents, establish your personal brand? What is your social media IQ? This week's podcast is from our recent Canadian Career Development Webinar with one of leading social media experts, Steve Garfield. Steve is the author of Get Seen: Online Video Secrets to Building your Business.

Steve launched his career in traditional media and was a radio producer on a Boston morning show for a number of years. He became interested in blogging, online video (pre Youtube) and new media. Fast forward a few years, Steve now advises Fortune 500 brands such as AT&T, Kodak, Nokia, and Panasonic, and media outlets including CBS, NBC and PBS on how to use social media to promote their products and services. He shared with us how an individual can use social media to raise your personal and professional profile.

Steve shared "In busy organizations getting noticed is becoming more challenging, however social media skills is a new skill that professionals need to develop and embrace" I couldn't agree more, I can remember when email was first entering the market some were very slow to adapt. This is the same today with social media such as Twitter, LinkedIn and Youtube. Here is why I think this is important. Your social media skill-set will have a direct impact on your job search results and your long-term career success-guaranteed!

I had fun doing this interview with Alan Kearns.

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Sunday, May 16, 2010

Take your seat for the Producer's Huddle - a place where content creators, new media beginners and video experts gather to participate in a live, interactive visual discussion for on the spot advice and coaching from a community of participants via video and online chat.

Watch, listen, and ask questions direct from your home or office computer as we take on spontaneous topics such as improving workflow, making money with video, equipment choices, behind the scenes tech, marketing and how to become successful.

Steve Garfield, video blogging pioneer, was the featured author on the ThoseinMedia Virtual MasterClass on Wednesday, 5/12/10. Joshua Beach, Media & Communications expert of ThoseinMedia, was the moderator.

Steve packed the hour with lots of practical, easy to implement strategies, using video examples, on how YOUR videos can GET SEEN virally & boost your profits to new heights. He makes it look like fun too. (We like fun!)

WHAT THE HECK, WHY NOT?
Our participants raved about Steve’s presentation, so we thought “What the heck, let’s make the MasterClass available for lots more folks to learn from Steve.” So, here’s the recording of the entire MasterClass (approx 55 mins). It is accessible for the next 10 days for the “fun” action takers to be empowered to speed up massive exposure & be the leaders of the pack.

Boston.com liked my Belt Sander Racing video so much that they posted a link to it on their front page, as a sidebar to their story, and embeded in their blog. The part that annoys me the most is that they are using my video without attribution.

Join Steve Garfield and Brightcove on May 20, 2010, 2:00 to 3:00 PM EST, for a Free Webinar
Video blogging has become a top activity on the web, as online video has taken off as an effective way to communicate with an audience. Steve Garfield, author the recently released book, Get Seen: Online Video Secrets to Building Business, is one of the web's first video bloggers, having launched his own regular video blog in 2004. Since then, he's become a leading expert and innovator with online video. Join Steve and Gary Lombardo of Brightcove, as they provide you with insight on what you need to do to be successful in building your business with video blogging.

Topics include:

What equipment you will need to get started
Tips on creating great videos and thinking like an editorBest practices in producing & publishing video on your blog
Optimizing your video blogging effortsExamples of video bloggers that have become online powerhouses

Amazon has starting rolling out its latest 2.5 Kindle update and with it a new feature called Popular Highlights.

What some will either class as incredibly annoying or the future of reading, users will now be able to see where other people have highlighted text within a book, very much like reading a used text book.

My friend Len Edgerly is reading Get Seen on his Kindle and he's turned on the twitter interface, so the quote he likes get's posted to the kindle popular highlights page, and it gets posted to his twitter feed.

One problem with the current implementation is that on the kindle popular highlights page, the permalink of each post is not displayed, so there's no way for the reader to share that link, unless they happen to see it on the reader's twitter feed, if they've enabled twitter sharing.

Wednesday, May 05, 2010

Stand out from the professional crowd with Award-winning Video Blogger Steve Garfield.

You've invested in a professional resume and cover letter, now what? You are connected, using Facebook, twitter, LinkedIn, but should you be doing more in your career to showcase your talents, establish your personal brand? Is there anything beyond these types of social networking sites that you should be doing? How can you provide another dimension to your online identity? Join Alan Kearns when he interviews one of the original video bloggers, Steve Garfield, and they delve into these questions while discussing Steve's book, Get Seen: Online Video Secrets to Building your Business.

Monday, May 03, 2010

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Steve is a Social Media Traveler. Companies, brands, and destinations send my wife and I on trips in hopes that we will publicly share our experiences via social media. Examples include opening festivities for the Hermitage Club and traveling with GMC to the Super Bowl. (Go Pats!) We are available for more branded experience trips.